vclip

a small command line tool to compile randomly selected video clips from a folder of videos. 🎞️✂️

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example

installation

vclip requires moviepy.

to install vclip:

pip install vclip

usage

given a path to a folder of videos, vclip will output a video composed from 10 randomly selected 1 second clips using the following:

vclip -i path/to/videos

options

help

--help / -h

show help menu.

input folder (-i / –input)

--input [path] / -i [path]

path to folder of videos (default: current path).

output file (-o / –output)

--output [file name] / -o [file name]

name of output filename (default: timestamped file in format [year month day hour second] for when script is run - e.g. 20240818085410.mp4).

number of clips (-n / –number)

--number [number of clips] / -n [number of clips]

number of clips to compile from video folder (default: 10 clips).

duration of clips (-d / –duration)

--duration [duration of clips] / -d [duration of clips]

duration of clips to clip from videos in folder (default: 1 second).

verbose (-v / –verbose)

--verbose / -v

enable verbose output (logging).

links

further documentation, details, code and examples can be found on the python package index here. source code is available here.